Deb D's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In.

[Deb D]

*Sigh!* ... with this pair of miscreants, why does that not surprise me? 

[toni*]

If you know where he went to in the US it may be worth contacting the state archive / library they may have some rec ords earlier than you think 

[regross]

Hi all,

Headstones are not always erected at the time of interment. The worwding

'the late Duncan Dunbar Tatham'

may have been correct at the time of the commissioning of the headstone.

This could have been any time after 1870!!! Any way o fiding out when it was erected?

So DJT did go to the USA and there he may well have stayed and googling brings up lots of Tatham hits in the USA and some with Duncan so perhaps I might spend some time sifting through these results and see what I can find.  USing LAramie and surrounds as a starting point.

regards

Robyn

[Deb D]

Okay, I've sent an email to the Wyoming State Library (there's a contact form on the Wyoming Archives website, but it's not letting me send anything!).  Hopefully they might get back to me soon!

[regross]

Hi

 sites worth visiting but no mention of our man but perhaps contacting them might also be worth while:

http://genealogytrails.com/wyo/albany/html/marriages__1889-1901.html
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wyalbany/obits.htm

and a possible date of death for Duncan Dunbar Tatham:

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TATHAM Duncan Dunbar-98273 was born in 1824. He died in 1862. from this site : http://www.merchantnetworks.com.au/genealogy/web/dunbar/pafg06.htm

regards

Robyn

[toni*]

Deb have you tried here?

http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us/

[Deb D]

Yep, - thanks, Toni, that was the one that wouldn't let me send the contact email form.  May try again later; it might have just been my connection was a bit dodgy at the time 

[toni*]

have you looked at their newspaper archives online - you can i searched for Dunbar and there were a lot of matches 

[Deb D]

Hi again, Toni ... I tried to look at them, but even after re-setting the Adobe Acrobat reader according to the directions ... all I'm getting is a blank page. 

Maybe my poota and the website don't get along *sigh!*